Oeconomicus UMKC Student-Refereed Journal Volume VII, 2004-2005 ISSN: 1546-2803 http://www.umkc.edu/econ/Oeconomicus/VolumeVII/ Table of Contents Editorials Editor's Note By Fadhel Kaboub (UMKC) Farewell to Dr. Bill Williams By UMKC Students Articles Islamic Financing: Impacts on Development and Equality By Andrew Barenberg (UMKC) =A0 The Dominant Economic Discourse of Today's Iran in Retrospect By Mohammad Maljoo (University of Tehran) =A0 The Influence of Firm Strategy on Business Cycles in Veblen's Economic Theory By Maximilien Nayaradou (Universit=E9 Paris IX, Dauphine) =A0 Neither Atomized nor Bi-lateralized: Market Actors Never Exchange outside a Social-Structural Context A Critical Analysis of the Economics of Transaction Costs By S=E9bastien Plociniczak (Universit=E9 Paris XIII) Mathematical Formalism in Economics: Verdict of the Reality By Ganna Pogrebna (UMKC) Review Essay =09 Reflections on the Empire of Capital By Kevin Young (Carleton University) Book Reviews =09 The State, the Market and the Euro: Chartalism versus Metallism in the = Theory of Money (edited by Bell and Nell, 2003) Reviewed by Zied Ben Hmida (University of Economics and Management of = Tunis) =A0 Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price = Stability (L. Randall Wray, 1998) Reviewed by Shawn J. Gebhardt (UMKC) Commitment to Full Employment: The Economics and Social Policy of = William S. Vickrey (edited by Warner, Forstater and Rosen, 2000) Reviewed by Linda Hauner (UMKC) =A0 The Open Economy and its Financial Constraints (Penelope Hawkins, 2003) Reviewed by Tae-Hee Jo (UMKC) The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement The first 600 days (edited by Edward Fullbrook, 2003) Reviewed by Fadhel Kaboub (UMKC) Reinventing Functional Finance: Transformational Growth and Full = Employment (edited by Nell and Forstater, 2003) Reviewed by Yan Liang (UMKC) Growth, Distribution and Effective Demand: Alternatives to Economic = Orthodoxy Essays in Honor of Edward J. Nell (edited by Argyrous, = Forstater and Mongiovi, 2004) Reviewed by Gilberto Libanio (University of Notre Dame) =A0 Trade, Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate Policy in Developing = Countries (A.P. Thirlwall, 2003) Reviewed by Corinne Pastoret (UMKC) =A0 The Countries of the Former Soviet Union at the Turn of the Twenty-first = Century: The Baltic and European States in Transition (Ian Jeffries, = 2004) Reviewed by Ganna Pogrebna (UMKC) =A0 Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor = Countries (Jennifer Clapp, 2001) Reviewed by Zdravka Todorova (UMKC) =A0 Designing US Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. = Keyserling (W. Robert Brazelton, 2001) Reviewed by Jonathan Watkins (UMKC) =A0 Books Received Write a book review for Oeconomicus and receive a complementary copy of the book courtesy of the publisher =09 Announcements Oeconomicus Call for Papers =09 =A0 ____________ Past issues of Oeconomicus are also available online: = http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/Oeconomicus/ Sincerely, Fadhel Kaboub Oeconomicus, Editor University of Missouri - Kansas City E-mail: [log in to unmask]